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Travis Louie and Kris Kuksi at Roq La Rue Gallery

David Pescovitz at 9:41 am Fri, Apr 8, 2011

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Opening at Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery tonight, Travis Louie's astounding new daguerreotype-influenced paintings of Victorian folk "and their pets" Also in the show, the insanely-detailed "post-industrial rococo" sculptures of Kris Kuksi, who we've also previously featured on BB. Above, Louie's "The Family Yeti" (acrylic on board 26" x 20"). Left, Kuksi's "Ode to Herculaneum" (detail). The art is also viewable online. Travis Louie and Kris Kuksi at Roq La Rue Gallery

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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neat.
snakedart

Am I the only one who looks at “Ode to Herculaneum” and sees the statue of Dagoth, The Dreaming God, from Conan the Destroyer?
ahmacrom

I got to see Kris Kuksi art up close in T.O at the Meta gallery last year and it was truly mind blowing.